Enchancing your Globe Wimax antenna gain with an old satellite dish

I have been plagued with a very poor signal strength due to bad location or area from my house. With the standard aerial antenna that comes with my Globe Wimax. I have decided to try using an old satellite tv dish lying around and put it to good use. Everything is in temporary mounting for this little experiment. You will notice rust and dirt on my dish and antenna receiver, as I have mounted this around 7:00 pm with a little rainshower.

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DIY: Building your own PirateBox

PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communications device that enables anonymous file-sharing. It utilizes wifi technology, catering to most devices that uses wireless connectivity thru wireless standards. PirateBox is created by David Darts and is registered under GNU GPLv3. This license grants the right to freely copy, distribute and transform creative works according to the principles of copyleft.

Here I will share you my first PirateBox project, incase you will build your own.

How to troubleshoot Garmin GPS Navigator on No-Name China GPS

Splash Screen booting up

Ever wondered buying cheaper GPS devices from your recent trip to China and later found out it can't get a decent satellite lock here in the Philippines? Here's what I did to workaround the problem.

I am refering to this no-name China GPS you can buy online from your favorite China goods seller. This particular device used for this guide is a 5 incher running a custom firmware and win ce 5. It comes preloaded with Garmin Mobile XT version 5.010W.

When I fired up Garmin it loads a script Garmin.mscr which preloads Port Splitter 1.20 before it loads the Garmin software. It takes forever when detecting satellites to lock into within Garmin. I have tried every ports listed and no luck.